The Mudejar heritage and agrarian calendar project aims to complement the current cultural programming in the territory by designing, creating and evaluating events in which this is of special importance. In this way, it allows not only direct contact with it for those who visit it, but also the interpretation of the agricultural landscape as an irreplaceable piece of identity. This also makes it possible to involve the local communities by highlighting the work on the land and the traditional agricultural product. With Aragonese Mudejar art as the guiding thread and with the agricultural landscape and traditional agricultural activities as the thematic criterion for the actions, the agricultural calendar is the backbone that allows the activities to be developed in an orderly manner and with a reasoned criterion.

In this first phase, the project has focused on diagnosing needs and interpreting the work area with a methodology that includes participant observation to identify the possibilities of linkage and the spatial and temporal articulation between the agrarian and architectural heritage assets and the agrarian calendar. This has made it possible – conditioned by the pandemic that has restricted mobility and access to certain localities at specific times when it was sometimes imperative due to the agricultural calendar (flowering, harvesting, etc.) – to know and understand the possible variables of action depending on the areas worked on.

These spaces are unique due to their differences in cultivation and the resulting landscape within the territory, which have so far been determined in a remarkable way with regard to the valleys that make up the Mudéjar Territory area by means of field trips and the production of materials in situ in the Jalón valley (Ricla, La Almunia de Doña Godina and Cabañas), the Ribota valley (Aniñón, Torralba de Ribota and Cervera de la Cañada) and the Huerva valley (Villar de los Navarros and Romanos). Finally, mention should be made of the Jalón-Jiloca valley with the towns of Maluenda, Morata de Jiloca and Villafeliche. Another of the areas analysed, in this case from an exclusively documentary perspective as a way of partially resolving the shortcomings caused by the interruptions in fieldwork mentioned above, was the Huerva valley. In this way, the localities of Cosuenda and Longares were the main object of the bibliographical data collection.

On the basis of this work and the adjustment of future work, especially organised with a view to resolving possible mobility restrictions, the actions aimed at testing and evaluating the first en route projects planned, which are aimed at promoting public access, interpretation and enjoyment of the Mudejar cultural landscape, made up of values such as its architecture, the different areas of agricultural production and the seasonal processes inherent to human activity in them, will now be derived from this work. Likewise, dissemination through Territorio Mudéjar, aimed at a better understanding of the importance of the agricultural landscape as an asset and part of the community, has been rethought from the perspective of anticipation in order to achieve a greater presence in the networks than has been achieved to date due to the current socio-health circumstances.

LINE OF RESEARCH: it can be framed within the double line of research Mudejar Territory and cultural landscape and the management of cultural heritage.

THE AUTHORS:

• Juan Ignacio Santos Rodríguez, coordinator of the project, holds a PhD in Art History and is a specialist in cultural management.
• Elvira del Pilar Domínguez Castro has a degree in Art History and is an independent cultural manager.